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{{Infobox attraction
| name = Mickey's Mix Magic
| park = [[Disneyland Park]]
| land = Main Street, U.S.A., Rivers of America and [[It's a small world]]
| type = Nighttime projection show
| opened = January 18, 2019
| designer = Disney Live Entertainment
| status = Seasonal
}}

'''Mickey's Mix Magic''' is a nighttime projection show at [[Disneyland Park]] at the Disneyland Resort in California. Built around remixed Disney songs and a DJ version of Mickey Mouse, it turns several areas of the park into a dance party, using projection mapping, lighting and lasers every night it is performed, with fireworks added on select nights. The show lasts about ten minutes and was created for Get Your Ears On – A Mickey and Minnie Celebration, the resort-wide party marking 90 years since Mickey and Minnie Mouse first appeared on screen.<ref name="geek">Disneyland Resort, "Get Your Ears On – A Mickey and Minnie Celebration" overview, January 2019 — beginning January 18, Mickey's Mix Magic lights up Disneyland Park as a high-energy projection show celebrating Mickey Mouse, with fireworks on select nights.</ref><ref name="wdwnt">WDW News Today, "Mickey's Mix Magic Fireworks Spectacular Debuts at Disneyland Park", January 19, 2019 — the show made its debut on January 18, 2019, running nightly at about ten minutes.</ref>

== History ==
Mickey Mouse turned 90 on November 18, 2018, the anniversary of ''Steamboat Willie'', and Disney Parks marked the milestone with a World's Biggest Mouse Party across its resorts. At Disneyland, the local expression of that party was Get Your Ears On, which launched in January 2019 with new decor, food, merchandise and the return of Mickey's Soundsational Parade.<ref name="itm">Inside the Magic, "Get Your Ears On – A Mickey & Minnie Celebration arrives at Disneyland in January 2019", November 2018 — Mickey celebrated his 90th birthday on November 18, 2018, and the celebration continued into 2019 at Disneyland.</ref>

Mickey's Mix Magic was the celebration's new nighttime offering, debuting on January 18, 2019.<ref name="geek" /><ref name="wdwnt" /> Unlike the park's story-driven fireworks spectaculars, it was designed from the start to work in two forms: as a projection, lighting and laser show on its own, and in an enhanced form with fireworks overhead. That flexibility made it useful well beyond its first season. After its original Get Your Ears On run, the show has returned for multiple shorter engagements, filling gaps between larger spectaculars and seasonal shows, and it remains part of the park's rotation of nighttime entertainment alongside productions such as [[Wondrous Journeys]].

== Show ==
The premise is simple: Mickey appears as a DJ, spinning for the crowd gathered along Main Street, U.S.A., around [[Sleeping Beauty Castle]], at the Rivers of America and in front of [[It's a small world]]. Projections transform the Main Street buildings, the castle, the [[It's a small world]] facade and the water screens of the Rivers of America, so the same performance reads differently depending on where a guest is standing.

The soundtrack is built around a new celebration song, "It's a Good Time", written for the World's Biggest Mouse Party, and a sequence of familiar Disney songs reworked in a dance and house-music style.<ref name="songs">Disneyland Resort fun facts for Mickey's Mix Magic, January 2019, reported by Laughing Place and other outlets — "It's a Good Time" was written for the celebration, and the score is inspired by house music.</ref> The remixes include "I Wanna Be Like You" from ''The Jungle Book'', "Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat" from ''The Aristocats'', "Friend Like Me" from ''Aladdin'', "Grim Grinning Ghosts" from the Haunted Mansion, "Un Poco Loco" from Pixar's ''Coco'' and "Let It Go" from ''Frozen''. Each song brings its own projected scene, so the buildings around the audience shift from a jungle to a jazz club to the Land of the Dead in quick succession.

Because the show is projection-led rather than pyro-led, it can be performed on nights when a full fireworks show is impractical, and on select nights the same soundtrack and projections are topped with fireworks. Either way it closes by reprising "It's a Good Time", leaving Main Street in dance-party mode as guests head for the exits.

That flexibility has shaped how Disneyland uses the show. At roughly ten minutes it is far shorter than the park's story spectaculars, it needs no flying character over the castle, and its soundtrack and projections were designed to stand on their own without a single shell in the sky. It can therefore cover nights between major productions, run through periods when a larger show is being refurbished, and still feel like a deliberate piece of entertainment rather than a placeholder — which is why, unusually for a show built for a single anniversary party, it has outlived the celebration it was created for.

== See also ==
* [[Disneyland Park]]
* [[Sleeping Beauty Castle]]
* [[It's a small world]]
* [[Wondrous Journeys]]
* [[Paint the Night]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Disneyland Park]]
[[Category:2019 establishments in California]]

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